Notable: November 2016

• Low Definition in Higher Education By Lyell Asher, The American Scholar, NOVEMBER 16, 2016
• How Latin America Pays the Price of Protectionism By TAOS TURNER and PAUL KIERNAN, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25, 2016
• China Issuing ‘Strict Controls’ on Overseas Investment By LINGLING WEI, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25, 2016 [Government to announce new measures intended to curb capital flight]
• The Thin Gene By PAGAN KENNEDY, The New York Times, NOV. 25, 2016
• Two Children, One Rich, One Poor, Gasping for Air in Delhi’s Smog By ELLEN BARRY, The New York Times, NOV. 23, 2016
• 100 Notable Books of 2016 The New York Times, November 23, 2016
• India’s Cash-Canceling Experiment By Bruce Einhorn, BloombergBusinessweek, November 23, 2016
• Economists are prone to fads, and the latest is machine learning The Economist, November 26, 2016. [Big data have led to the latest craze in economic research.]
• How Indians triumphed in America, The Economist, November 26, 2016. [Review of The Other One Percent: Indians in America. By Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and Nirvikar Singh]
• The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. By Lawrence Lessig, The Washington Post, November 24, 2016
• Researchers have found a troubling new cause of death for middle-aged white Americans By Max Ehrenfreund, The Washington Post, November 23, 2016
• Alaska’s Novel Plan to Cut Health Premium Costs By SHAYNDI RAICE and
  ANNA WILDE MATHEWS, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 2016 [Could this be a plus point for Medicaid?]
• TROUBLING STUDY SAYS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN PREDICT WHO WILL BE CRIMINALS BASED ON FACIAL FEATURES By Sam Biddle, The Intercept, November 18, 2016 [What's to be done about findings such as this? Would it help to inform a person that their facial features suggest they are likely/unlikely to commit crime? If Big Data identifies interventions -- say a particular ethics course --  that are inversely correlated with  criminal behavior, should such interventions be subsidized? Should plastic surgery be subsidized (a) for procedures to "correct" the facial features associated with criminal behavior or (b) for procedures to adopt, as a gesture of solidarity, the facial features associated with criminal behavior?]
• RETHINKING HOW THE HOUSING CRISIS HAPPENED By Zach Church, MIT Sloan,  November 9, 2016
• Breathe. Exhale. Repeat: The Benefits of Controlled Breathing By Lesley Alderman, The New York Times, November 9, 2016
  
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Notable: November 22, 2016

• U.S. Dementia Rates Are Dropping Even as Population Ages By GINA KOLATA, The New York Times, NOV. 21, 2016
• This Pizzeria Is Not a Child-Trafficking Site By CECILIA KANG, The New York Times, NOV. 21, 2016
• ‘A Rude Shock’: Indians Describe Life After Narendra Modi’s Currency Ban By HANNA INGBER, The New York Times, NOV. 21, 2016

Notable: November 20, 2016

• Italy’s Banks Are in a Slow-Motion Crisis. And Europe May Pay. By PETER S. GOODMAN, The New York Times, NOV. 19, 2016
• The Kind of Car Insurer That Gives Consumers the Best Value By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2016
• Why Surging Stocks May Not Mean the Economy Trusts Trump By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2016
• Trump’s big infrastructure plan? It’s a trap. By Ronald A. Klain, The Washington Post, November 18, 2016
• Infrastructure Build or Privatization Scam? By Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal (blog), The New York Times, November 19, 2016
• Build He Won’t By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 21, 2016 [Item added on November 21, 2016]

Notable: November 19, 2016

• Why I Had to Eat a Bug on CNN By SAM WANG, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2016
• The county-by-county data on Trump voters shows why he won By Loren Collingwood, The Washington Post, November 19, 2016
• Appalachia’s Sacrifice By RON RASH, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2016
• The End of Identity Liberalism By MARK LILLA, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2016
• A non-pill treatment for many chronic illnesses: Exercise By Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, November 19, 2016

Notable: November 15, 2016

• What Could Be Worse Than Repealing All of Obamacare? By JONATHAN GRUBER, The New York Times, NOV. 14, 2016
• Why Keeping Only the Popular Parts of Obamacare Won’t Work By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, NOV. 15, 2016
• A Concerned Billionaire Develops a Plan for Retirements By LANDON THOMAS Jr., The New York Times, NOV. 14, 2016
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Notable: November 12, 2016

• Painful Steps Help Egypt Secure $12 Billion I.M.F. Loan By DIAA HADID, The New York Times, NOV. 11, 2016
• Soda Taxes Sweep to Victories, Despite Facing Big Spending By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, NOV. 9, 2016
• College Accreditors Largely Staffed by Employees of Schools They Oversee By DOUGLAS BELKIN and JOSH MITCHELL, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 11, 2016
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Income Tax and Tax Evasion in India

• How many Indians pay Income Tax and eFile their Income Tax Returns Be Money Aware Blog, August 17, 2016
• Guess how many people pay taxes in India By Spriha Srivastava, CNBC, May 3, 2016
• The number of Indians who pay taxes is just a little more than the population of London By Madhura Karnik and Manu Balachandran, May 03, 2016, Quartz India
• Narendra Modi Bans India’s Largest Currency Bills in Bid to Cut Corruption By GEETA ANAND and HARI KUMAR, The New York Times, NOV. 8, 2016
• 'No customers': Indians react to currency ban By Vikas Pandey and Aakriti Thapar, BBC, November 9, 2016
• Shock as India scraps 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes BBC, November 9, 2016
• India scraps 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes overnight BBC, November 9, 2016
• India Surprises with a Wealth Tax on the Black Market By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), November 8, 2016
• Here's What Raghuram Rajan Thinks Of Currency Demonetisation By Rimin Dutt, The Huffington Post India, November 9, 2016

Downloadable Books in Bengali

• বিনামূল্যে বাংলা বই পড়তে ৬টি দারুণ ওয়েবসাইট
• বইয়ের দোকান
• আমার বই
• বাংলা ইন্টারনেট -- বাংলা বই
• ই-বইপত্র
• সুকুমার সাহিত্য সমগ্র -- তিন খণ্ডে [archive.org-এ বাংলায় লেখা আরো বহু বই পাওয়া যাবে]
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Notable: November 6, 2016

• A New Movement in Liberal Economics That Could Shape Hillary Clinton’s Agenda By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, November 4, 2016
• Why Aren’t Americans Getting Raises? Blame the Monopsony By JASON FURMAN and
  ALAN B. KRUEGER, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2016
• Why you shouldn’t organize your email By Jena McGregor, The Washington Post, October 31, 2016 [Interview with Tim Harford on his new book "Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives."]

Notable: November 5, 2016

• Schools That Work By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, NOV. 4, 2016
• Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice By Joshua D. Angrist, Sarah R. Cohodes, Susan M. Dynarski, Parag A. Pathak, Christopher R. Walters, Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, vol. 34, no. 2, pt. 1
• Nicaragua’s Leftist Ortega Embraces Business—and Authoritarianism By JUAN MONTES and JOSÉ DE CÓRDOBA, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 2016
• Chile Faces Growing Pressure to Scrap Private-Pension Model By RYAN DUBE, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 2016
• A Brilliant History of Technology By STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 2016

Notable: November 1, 2016

• Unemployment insurance reform: a primer By Till Von Wachter, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, October 31, 2016
• Oliver Hart and the nature of the firm By Kevin Bryan, VoxEu, 01 November 2016
• Oliver Hart, Nobel laureate By Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka, VoxEu, 29 October 2016
• Bengt Holmström and the black box of the firm By Kevin Bryan, VoxEu, 23 October 2016
• Certified random co-authors By Debraj Ray and Arthur Robson, VoxEu, 30 October 2016
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